A microsurgical telerobot system has been developed based on the results of the operation task analysis. The telerobot system is composed of a 6-dof parallel micromanipulator attached to the macro-motion industrial robot, and a 6-dof force-reflecting haptic master device. The master device is using five-bar parallel mechanisms driven by harmonic DC servomotors. The proposed 6-dof master hand co...

This paper presents an efficient application of a model based predictive control in parallel mechanisms. A predictive functional control control strategy based on a simplified dynamic model is implemented. Experimental results are shown for the H4 robot, a fully parallel structure providing 3 degrees of freedom (dof) in translation and 1 dof in rotation. Predictive functional control, computed ...

the main objective of this paper is to study the euclidean displacement of a 5-dof parallel mechanism performing three translation and two independent rotations with identical limb structures-recently revealed by performing the type synthesis-in a higher dimensional projective space, rather than relying on classical recipes, such as cartesian coordinates and euler angles. in this paper, study&a...

This paper presents a fully decoupled parallel 2-DOF spherical mechanism, named HEMISPHERE. First, the design idea is introduced based on a general 2-DOF spherical mechanism. Then, a practical architecture is presented, which employs only two kinds of 1-DOF kinematic pairs: revolute joint and prismatic pair. Next, following the discussion about the limitation from the friction circle of the rev...

Parallel manipulators have the advantages of high stiffness and low inertia compared to serial mechanisms. Based on the Steward-Gough platform architecture, a lot of 6-DOF mechanical devices have been proposed. The 6-DOF parallel manipulators suffer from a small workspace, complex mechanical design, and difficult motion generation and control due to their complex kinematic analysis. To overcome...

This paper proposes a new family of four degrees-of-freedom (dof) parallel mechanisms with two platforms and its application to a footpad device that can simulate the spatial motions of the human foot. The new mechanism consists of front and rear platforms, and three limbs. Two limbs with 6-dof serial joints (P-S-P-P) are attached to each platform and are perpendicular to the base plate, while ...

Flexure parallel mechanism (FPM) possessing selective actuation (SA) feature can be used as a micropositioner. The design of SA FPMs consists of type synthesis of parallel mechanisms possessing the required number of degree of freedom (DOF), geometric arrangement of the structure to obtain the SA and conversion of the kinematic mechanism into the flexure mechanism. This paper focuses on the SA ...

The flexure parallel mechanism (FPM) possessing selective actuation (SA) feature can be used as a micromanipulation system. The design of FPMs with the SA characteristic consists of type synthesis of parallel mechanisms possessing the required number of degree of freedom (DOF), geometric arrangement of the structure to obtain the SA and conversion of the kinematic mechanism into the flexure mec...

It is well known that singular configurations are an inherent nature of mechanical systems and have important influences on their properties. Therefore, these special configurations of the system are usually avoided in design and application of mechanisms. For simple 2-DOF and 3-DOF planar manipulators, the singularity loci have been obtained in [1, 2]. For spherical 3DOF parallel manipulators ...